How To Organize & Cull Thousands Of Photos In Less Time - Lightroom Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- As photographers, we're dealing with hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of photos from shoots. After the fun part of shooting photos is over, it's time to sit down at the computer and start getting to work. If you don't know where to begin, organizing and sorting photos in Adobe Lightroom can feel overwhelming.
To help you get on the right track, this tutorial breaks down the different organization methods you have for sorting photos within a folder. From flags, reject flags, rated, or color labeled images, you can quickly separate your good photos from the bad in no time.
Once you start to see how these different sorting options work, I share a Lightroom workflow I like to use to sort my images. With the techniques I share here, I can organize 1000 images in 10-20 minutes. After the main images are flagged, I go through a second pass while I edit to add further ratings or color labels depending on what I plan to do with the image.
Once everything is complete, I take all the reject flags and delete them from lightroom or my disk (depending on my mood). With the tips learned here, you can copy my workflow, or make some adaptations to work for you!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro + Overview
1:01 Getting Set Up For Culling
2:39 Using Flags In Lightroom
3:40 Reject Flags
4:37 Star Ratings
6:02 Color Labels
7:09 Explaining My Own Workflow
7:45 Step 1- Flag & Reject
9:20 Step 2- Filter & Edit Flagged Images
11:00 How I Use Star Ratings
12:18 Step 3- Delete Reject Photos
13:31 Summary & Wrap Up
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This is exactly what I was looking for since I’m jumping back into my photography after a long time away. What a relief! Thank you so much! 🤗
Holy 💩 what a banger video. Clear and concise. Very informative and well thought out. Subbed.
FYI, The caps lock button will turn on and off auto advance and Control+backspace will bring up the option to delete your photos from your disk.
Amazing tutorial man, helped me tremendeously
Nice, clear specific. Well done
dude this is one of the most helpful LR tutorials i've come across, not only the information but the way you taught it! thank you so so much!
This was brilliant Brendan. So clear with good summaries and no waffle at all. Thanks
This video was PERFECTLY explained and so very helpful!! THANK YOU!!!!
Very good straight forward tutorial! Perfectly explaining why Lightroom is probably the best images management professional tool.
Spot on for making fast progress towards the fun parts of image processing! Thanks!
Brendan, this video was very helpful, you explained everything well and I like how you summarized everything in the end. Thanks for sharing your expertise!
This is just what I needed to sort through all these wedding photos. Thanks!!!!
Great vid. Some great ideas all professionally presented. Great work Brendan.
Awesome. What I do depends on the scenario. If I have 1057 images and feel more than 1/2 will end up being deleted. I select all and mark everything reject and than start picking the images I like, it drastically reduced the number of key strokes. If I'm going to keep more than half I do it vice versa. :)
Oooh, this is a really good tip, thank you!
Great video - clear and concise tutorial and I loved the memories of the TdeMB, which I hiked 10 years ago!
This was very helpful! Thank you.
Thank you for saving me hours! Clear and easy to follow.
Great job Brendan, quick and to the point. I like it.
Amazing, thank you so much for this!!!! Well explained and easy to follow along!
no problem!
Excellent tutorial. Thanks for sharing!
Very good and very clear and efficient instruction! Thanks!
Great tutorial! You have yourself a new subscriber sir 🤓
Excellent. Just what I've been looking for.
WOW!! THANK YOU!!!! This was amazingly helpful as I have been frustrated with Lightroom organization for a while. Thank you again!
Learnt a lot from this, thanks
Great stuff Brendan , thanks for making this .
That was AWESOME!! Thank you!
Thank you so much Brendan... I needed a speedy way to cull not just for my first pass but also for when I show to the client a seamless professional way to cull with the customer. Big PLUS for me.. also thank you so much for just getting right to it.. vs time waisting chatter.
Thank you. An excellent summary. Clear and concise as usual.
You are welcome!
I apply a very similar workflow, although I don't bother with rejecting, but I do the picked ones, then I go through the picked ones and give them star ratings 1-3 and if there are any obvious great ones, they get 4 and then the great ones that have been edited get 5. Red ones need editing externally, Green ones have already been edited, Yellow ones get a square crop for instagram etc. You can sort all the ones that did not get picked and those will be your rejects. Its a very good idea to go through your un picked or rejected photos before you delete them. Also, Caps Lock On/Off will togglel auto advance your selection. I feel like we are almost there with this tutorial, but I still would love to see someone go in depth on how they select between a batch of very good, yet similar images and the thought process and how to sort and select from that. Sorting through obvious good and bad images is pretty easy. Also, when you know what you can bring back to live through editing, it becomes quite tricky. Anyway, thanks for the tutorial.
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Thank you so much! Helpful tutorial.
Wow, what a great tutorial, thank you so much!
Great tutorial, straight to the point... Well Done!
Glad you enjoyed!
Sweet organization tips. Very clever.
Very useful ! Thank you
Thank you sir! Extremely helpful!
Glad you thought so!
Amazing!!!
Thanks so much. Extremely helpful. I have 4000 pics from a Safari in Kenya, and your process will help me select the good ones without wasting time.
Very helpful. Thank you!
Very useful and helpful Information! Thanks so much! Merry Christmas!🎄
Thank you so much. That's very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Great vid!
Thank you for this info. It will help me alot
Great video, thank you!!!
great video!!
Brilliant!
Thanks so much. Really helpful. :)
very helpful thx!
So helpful video Brendan, thanks a lot, it was very helpful to this rockie photographer :) Greatings from México
I have the exact same workflow for years now ☺️👌✨
Just that, for me: red = client order, green = good for portfolio, yellow = needs to go on photoshop or third party program, blue = memories and purple for edited memories ;)
And then I have smart collections with "if green or red and more than 3 stars, go to portfolio"
Thank you so much for this info as I have been struggling with my work flow as l'll have anywhere between 1500 to 4000 shots to go through from a weekend event,
amazing thank you
useful content.
Thank you.👍🏽
Thank you very much
Thank you really helpful :)
Oh man, thanks for the help. Ive got a little more than 2000 to go through, and I only have a 30 day trial lol so ive been busting ass trying to get as much done, thank you
This is perfect Brendan thanks a million for putting this together. I see you're working just with RAW files there, I happen to shoot JPG and RAW so I have a reference to compare to when retouching which means I have both in Lightroom. When I sort the shots, I either want to delete both or keep both and I'm doing so by pressing x twice or p twice for each shot. My end goal is to dump most of my shots (deleting them from the hard drive) so that I end up with the best. Is there a way of stacking the two by filename so I can speed up the culling process? Doing it by time doesn't work for me because I have quite a lot of burst shots.
Hmm that is a unique situation. Have you considered only culling the raws and then creating virtual copies of the raw files after they are called so you still have duplicates? That way youd only have to cull the raws if you filter the library by text with the .Cr3 extension or whatever as the text name filter. Otherwise I cant think of a solution where you could link every jpeg to its raw file
thanks for this tutorial
You are welcome!
thanks
Omg thanx 👍
Thanks I learned a lot.
As a newbie I am always getting confused between Lightroom and Lightroom CC.
I wish they would change the names to make it clearer.
SWWWWWEEEEEETTTT!!! great job!! I just started shooting again.. Used to rock Aperture... Time to learn LIGHTROOM! Super great video.. I was like a new born baby on this software, u just got me up and running and getting into all sorts of trouble!!! keep up the great videos. Ill be checking them all out after I edit the 6th Annual Clio Cultivators Cup!!!! In record time.. Thank you soooooo much, for real.. Keep up the good work.. @DjStupid
Awesome 🙌🏻
Thanks very helpful we could do this in bridge
Great tutorial. Is there a way to automate some of this culling like lightroom flagging blurry photos where the camera missed focus. Or LR could analyze all photos with people in them and flag the ones where the subject is not sharp. Is there a good way to handle burst shots? I don't do them normally because it is a pain to go through them and find the best shot quickly.
I don’t think there is anything currently in Lightroom for that, but there are external plugins such as Filterpixel (I think its called) that uses AI to sort out blurry photos and bad shots. It can be hit and miss but is on the track you are talking about.
Awesome video. Unfortunately when I do this the photos remain on the disk. I don't understand why. I just spent a couple hours going through them, told it to delete from disk and was super happy until I opened the folder on my drive to find all the pictures still there.
Hey great video
But how do I get the attribute toolbar up as my lightroom doesn’t have it
Brendan--Is there a way to sort my final picked photos by the time of capture so they are in sequence for a photo book?
Fast and easy way to cull instead of X & P >>>> either X or P all of the images you want to cull by selecting them all and selecting X or P >>>> Example if you used P, as your culling now your only using 1 key X to cull instead of 2 which would be X & P .
At 11:06 you you say "indicating to me that they have been exported already" - when were they exported and to where - the first editing? I have 2400 photos taken of osprey in Florida to cull many of which are waiting for the bird to start its dive. My first step will seem be to reject out of focus and duplicates. Thanks
I find grouping images by minute helps (don't know if Lightroom allows this) Generally if a group of photos is taken in the same minute then they are likely to be of the same thing/frame
Yes. Lightroom can create a stack of images. You can set custom time interval.
Question, do we just organize and sort the RAW files, or the finished JEPG files or both......a bit lost here, sorry !
Brendan; great job, well done. One missing element of the process I don't quite understand, is once the photos are culled, are you physically moving the good ones to a new physical folder, or how are you tracking those? Do you simply wait to complete the editing process before exporting them to a 'final' folder or some such thing? thanks.
personall how i deal with this is I have a "raw" folder for all my raws and then a "final" folder for all my photos I ended up editing (the raw folder is so much bigger than the edited one)
What about for people who shoot many different topics, genres, people, animals and aren't just a wedding photographer or adventure photographer. My SD cards are full of random different types of photos. Any help appreciated.
I’m just confused on how you export part of them and then continue with the others later..how do you do that??
wooo what a magical way u have given in this vedeo . i also use it before editing weeding catalog .
hey photographer dud i wanna edit ur shots . give me some images if u have enough work .
I didn't sort all the pictures at the beginning, now after adjusted all the pics, I want to sort out all the edited pics, may I know how can I do it? thanks
I would flag all of the edited photos in your library, then filter them to only view the flagged images. From there I would further organize the edited photos by star ratings, but try to give a meaning to one star, two star etc depending on what you want to do with those images.
Love the Auto Advance tip, but somehow, I do not have that option in my Lightroom Classic. Edit: My bad, I was in Develop, not Library.
I Short by virtual copies, Which I have a feeling that is extremely unique
If I would’ve watched this a year ago I would have saved so many hours haha
i dont wanna be a downer, but filters are a really basic way to organize your photos. Culling the good from the bad though -_____-. I'm a party photographer and have to go through a couple thousand photos where I need to see if all the people look good, the composition doesn't suck etc. I spend several seconds on an image but when multiplied by 2.5k lets say, it adds up real quick. I wanna know some ways to quickly decide whether the photo is good or bad, but haven't found any yet.
I know just what you mean( I do large events) but the choice should take a SPLIT second. I have images about 5 across and just do pick/ flag. Can run through 1000+ in 10 min or so. The hard part is making sure all the key people, and close friends are included(more than others), and if needed often rate them 1, when also adding picks, so i can go back and edit them more, the rest of the shots just get basic correction, and yes it takes time.
Every single tutorial on TH-cam is done with the Adobe Lightroom Classic Application. I'm using Adobe Lightroom CC and I cannot, for the life of me, find the option to filter the library by "Picked" or "Rejected"
Off the top of my head here (I am not at my computer), there is a filter icon thats a funnel looking icon in the upper bar that reveals the options to filter by picked or rejected!
Found it, thanks so much for the response. You can filter by edited also, super cool 👍
what are the odds that im trying to sort my photos from my Tour du Mont Blanc Hike and I have the same photo with my wife??????????
Just moved over to PS and wow!I ...wished each tutorial for PS on youtube would first show you how to set the work space up the same as they are using,, what a nightmare. I can't find half the shit you are talking about lol get that right I will give you a tick, may even subscribe.
i have a faster way but it's a secret D:
NEVER us jump cuts, they SCREAM AMATEUR. Learn documentary filmmaking FFS.